Scares off leaders and others turning up in the papers for one of those lonely types (8)
I believe the answer is:
isolated
'one of those lonely types' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'scares off leaders and others turning up in the papers' is the wordplay.
'leaders' suggests taking the first letters.
'and others' becomes 'etal' ('et al.' can be a synonym of 'and others').
'turning up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'in the' is an insertion indicator.
'papers' becomes 'id' (identification papers).
The first letters of 'scares off' is 'so'.
'etal' reversed gives 'late'.
'so'+'late'='solate'
'solate' placed within 'id' is 'ISOLATED'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for isolated that I've seen before include "individual" , "Idols ate (anag.)" , "Remote; lonely" , "Divorced" , "Cut off or left behind" .)